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Thanks for this post, Terry. I was considering to buy my first CS model for MSFS, but not with a KingAir flight model. That's really a bummer. Peter

I understood Dave that P2ATC will use Voice Access in the future, but using its own instance of it. If that is correct, there would be a significant internal change in how P2ATC recognizes voice, but nothing will change on the outside. Maybe Dave can clarify that point.

[1] Yes, they do. But generally forces need some source of energy to be created, and Buhler claims a new type of force that does not require an energy source. [2] The commonly accepted view in the physics community is that gravity is distortion of space. It corresponds to a measurable effect of space-time curvature, not the cause. The cause of curvature is energy (there is a bit more to it, but energy is the dominating source). Since electromagnetic fields contain energy, they do indeed distort space. However, the effect of is generally tiny compared to that of the rest energy E = m c2 of an object of mass m.

I just saw that it works on another site: https://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/135009-Hercules-fans-you-ain-t-gonna-believe-this?p=1334064&viewfull=1#post1334064

Bought it today and love it 🙂

I scanned through his presentation at the APEC conference (which is not a major scientific conference). He starts with solid physics, but becomes sketchy when he talks about the interesting parts. I am always a bit cautious when people found companies around an idea that has not passed peer review, and they promise big breakthroughs. There is now an entire industry around start-up companies that appeal to high-risk high-gain investors. I would count the Boom supersonic jet as one example, and that one is on much firmer ground than this propulsion idea. I personally will not invest into Buhler's company 🙂 Peter

Ah, most informative. I will then wait until Voice Access will be used in P2ATC. Can't wait for this to happen, I really miss using P2ATC 🙂

Thanks for chiming in Dave. I have tried speech training excessively, both within and outside of P2ATC, to no avail. However, I might have turned on Windows speech recognition while using P2ATC. I will try it again without speech recognition. Peter

Ah, good. That speech recognition never understood me (even when I spoke very clearly, and very simple sentences) and is the single reason why I don't use P2ATC anymore. My hope would be that P2ATC will use something else soon.

Yep, that's very much personal preference. I personally would say that MSFS Premium is good enough for most purposes. Add a few freeware airports, the free FBW A320, and perhaps some payware airports that you really like, and you're good to go. If you want good ATC, you should look into Vatsim, PilotEdge, SayIntentions, or BeyondATC (not available yet). I you want good charts, you should get a Navigraph subscription. And if you want outstanding aircraft, you should get payware airplanes from A2A, Fenix, PMDG, Milviz/Blackbird, and some other companies. But, unlike P3D, you do not have to invest first in weather, scenery, and payware aircraft to make the sim pretty and interesting. Peter

We had almost perfect weather in New Brunswick. Only a single cloud, and guess where that cloud moved only seconds after totality started. Luckily, the cloud was not very thick, so we could still see corona and flares. Plus, we could see rainbow colours in that cloud shortly before and after totality. We couldn't see any stars near the Sun, though. It was a great experience. Peter

We will go to New Brunswick, forecast is perfect: clear and warm (+11C). We will bring a wide-view telescope with an attached camera to take high-precision photos. Plus binoculars and glasses. Peter

Amazing. Great job, Ray. And what a cool story, I didn't know about the Concorde chasing an eclipse. For everyone who is as word not allowed of it as I was, here is a web page on this flight: https://airwaysmag.com/concorde-chased-solar-eclipse/

Correct. We'll need a good camera and telescope for that, but in the worst case we will end up with nice photos of the corona 🙂. We are still working on the details, but we have some reasonably good telescopes. I've seen the March 2015 partial eclipse as well in Germany. And the eclipse of August 2017, but only in my hometown in Nova Scotia, i.e., for away from the path of totality. We made a big party and invited people to watch the silhouette of the Moon, it was really nice. But it was only about 5-10% coverage, you couldn't notice any change in daylight. The one in 2015 was much more memorable.

I have witnessed a total solar eclipse in 1999 in Germany, but it was cloudy. I turned dark for 2 minutes, that was it. We have plans to go to New Brunswick for the upcoming eclipse, but only if the weather forecast is fine. We may try to take an image of the Sun through a telescope and see if we can verify the bending of light rays by the Sun ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment ). Unfortunately, we only have a 25% chance for the sky to be clear in early April there 😐. Peter